What Company Is Offering:
StreamSend is an award winning permission based e-mail marketing solution created by marketers, for marketers.StreamSend is the most comprehensive and cost-effective permission-based e-mail marketing suite available. The company is proud to provide this powerful email marketing suite to marketers, entrepreneurs and online retailers around the world. StreamSend also has a strong Email Marketing Reseller program.
How It Works:
Itt's a web-based application that allows you to simply log-in to you account and create and send email campaigns. StreamSend does not require any software to be downloaded or installed on your computer.
It's one of the only email marketing applications that offers every customer a private IP address . StreamSend is the most cost-effective web-based email marketing solution and offers features comparable to applications that cost thousands of dollars. They do not require that you sign a one-year contract, as most other robust applications do, and they offer a 30 day free trial so that you can see for yourself just how powerful a tool StreamSend can be. Be sure to test drive StreamSend before you chose your email marketing solution.
More at:http://www.streamsend.com/
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Media companies are launching "vertical ad networks"
Looking to snare a larger share of Internet ad dollars, traditional media companies are launching "vertical ad networks" in which they sell ad bundles of space on their sites and on independent sites with complementary content.
Forbes.com's Business and Finance Blog Network, announced last week, includes more than 450 finance-focused blogs, such as Talking Biz News and Xconomy. Forbes will sell ad space across that network, earning a cut of the revenue from the sites.
It hopes to attract advertisers by featuring blogs that have been prescreened for "credible" content, says Forbes.com CEO Jim Spanfeller.
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia has put together an ad network — known as Martha's Circle — that's made up of 25 lifestyle-focused sites such as FriendsEat.com and Christmas-Cookies.com.
Ad space on the partner site typically is sold in packages with space on MarthaStewart.com and MSO's company-owned sites and blogs, which also include The Martha Blog and The Bride's Guide. Advertisers can create their own specialized bundle as well with a la carte site selection.
Via-USA TODAY
Forbes.com's Business and Finance Blog Network, announced last week, includes more than 450 finance-focused blogs, such as Talking Biz News and Xconomy. Forbes will sell ad space across that network, earning a cut of the revenue from the sites.
It hopes to attract advertisers by featuring blogs that have been prescreened for "credible" content, says Forbes.com CEO Jim Spanfeller.
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia has put together an ad network — known as Martha's Circle — that's made up of 25 lifestyle-focused sites such as FriendsEat.com and Christmas-Cookies.com.
Ad space on the partner site typically is sold in packages with space on MarthaStewart.com and MSO's company-owned sites and blogs, which also include The Martha Blog and The Bride's Guide. Advertisers can create their own specialized bundle as well with a la carte site selection.
Via-USA TODAY
Delaycast----Find Flight Delay Predictions
What Company Is Offering:
Delaycast was established to provide information about possible difficulties in flight itineraries and to give travelers realistic expectations about their travel plans. Its goal is to help flyers avoid delays, missed connections, and unintended stayovers.
How It Works:
When travelers consider future air travel, Delaycast.com provides them with reasonable estimates of the delays they may experience based on factors such as airline, origin, destination, and date and time of day. These estimates are based on predictive modeling technologies that model historical patterns in flight delays and project them into the future.
Unique Features:
1. Delay Profiles provide broad overviews of the best days, times, and airlines to fly, based on selected airports.
2. Delay Predictions provide information about delays and cancellations for specific airports, airlines, dates and times.
All predictions and profiles are produced by the models, and as such, are never 100% accurate. Nevertheless, the insight provided beyond the airlines schedules will help most traveler avoid troubles.
More at:http://www.delaycast.com/
Delaycast was established to provide information about possible difficulties in flight itineraries and to give travelers realistic expectations about their travel plans. Its goal is to help flyers avoid delays, missed connections, and unintended stayovers.
How It Works:
When travelers consider future air travel, Delaycast.com provides them with reasonable estimates of the delays they may experience based on factors such as airline, origin, destination, and date and time of day. These estimates are based on predictive modeling technologies that model historical patterns in flight delays and project them into the future.
Unique Features:
1. Delay Profiles provide broad overviews of the best days, times, and airlines to fly, based on selected airports.
2. Delay Predictions provide information about delays and cancellations for specific airports, airlines, dates and times.
All predictions and profiles are produced by the models, and as such, are never 100% accurate. Nevertheless, the insight provided beyond the airlines schedules will help most traveler avoid troubles.
More at:http://www.delaycast.com/
Crowdabout makes podcasts interactive and conversational
What Company Is Offering:
Social networks for podcasters and their crowds.Crowdabout makes podcasts interactive and conversational. While listening or viewing in the online Conversational Player, you can talk back and add your own thoughts to those of crowds of other people listening to the same shows. Share ideas, correct mistakes, debate the finer points, offer advice, shout out to homeys, leave some love...whatever your motivation, crowdabout makes the converstation possible.
How It Works:
By adding your existing podcast RSS feed, you'll automatically be adding all your shows from the feed to CrowdAbout for listeners to discover, enjoy an interact with. When you are logged in, click the "My Settings" link in your control box at the top of the site. Then click the edit button next to "My Show Settings" to name your show, add your feed, upload a thumbnail image for the show, and assign categories and search tags.
Add Posts to Your Episodes in the Conversational Player.
Get Conversation Feeds to help manage the interaction, and add to your site things like RSS chicklets for your conversation feed, little graphic badges to tell people how to get interactive with your site, and embeddable players to make your site the starting place for the conversation.
When playback reaches a point where you want to make a post, click the + button at the right side of the timeline at the bottom of the player. (If you don't see this button, then the person who uploaded the media may have disabled that option.) Compose your post. Click the play button in the lower left corner of the post to review where the post will appear once submitted. Nudge the post left and right as needed using the nudge-left and nudge-right buttons next to the post-play button. Click "Send" in the lower right corner when finished.
More at:http://crowdabout.us/
Social networks for podcasters and their crowds.Crowdabout makes podcasts interactive and conversational. While listening or viewing in the online Conversational Player, you can talk back and add your own thoughts to those of crowds of other people listening to the same shows. Share ideas, correct mistakes, debate the finer points, offer advice, shout out to homeys, leave some love...whatever your motivation, crowdabout makes the converstation possible.
How It Works:
By adding your existing podcast RSS feed, you'll automatically be adding all your shows from the feed to CrowdAbout for listeners to discover, enjoy an interact with. When you are logged in, click the "My Settings" link in your control box at the top of the site. Then click the edit button next to "My Show Settings" to name your show, add your feed, upload a thumbnail image for the show, and assign categories and search tags.
Add Posts to Your Episodes in the Conversational Player.
Get Conversation Feeds to help manage the interaction, and add to your site things like RSS chicklets for your conversation feed, little graphic badges to tell people how to get interactive with your site, and embeddable players to make your site the starting place for the conversation.
When playback reaches a point where you want to make a post, click the + button at the right side of the timeline at the bottom of the player. (If you don't see this button, then the person who uploaded the media may have disabled that option.) Compose your post. Click the play button in the lower left corner of the post to review where the post will appear once submitted. Nudge the post left and right as needed using the nudge-left and nudge-right buttons next to the post-play button. Click "Send" in the lower right corner when finished.
More at:http://crowdabout.us/
Indeed, the most comprehensive search engine for jobs, announced the launch of Job Search by Salary
What Company Is Offering:
Indeed, the most comprehensive search engine for jobs, pioneered a radically improved approach to job search. Indeed has given job seekers free access - instantly, in a single search - to millions of jobs from thousands of company websites, job boards, newspapers, blogs and associations. Indeed makes it easy for job seekers to drill down by keyword, location - and now salary - to find exactly the right jobs. With millions of job seekers and over a hundred million job searches per month, Indeed is by far the leading vertical search engine for jobs. Indeed was selected by Time magazine as one of the Top 10 Websites in 2007 and by PC World as one of the Best 50 Websites. Indeed won a 2008 Weddle’s Users’ Choice Award and was named the Best Job Search Engine by Job-hunt.org.
Recent Updates:
Indeed, the most comprehensive search engine for jobs, announced today the launch of Job Search by Salary. This unique feature enables job seekers to find all jobs meeting their salary needs - even when salaries are not advertised by employers. The vast majority of job listings don't include salaries, so Indeed estimates the salaries of millions of such jobs. Job seekers have never been able to search all jobs by salary until now.
Indeed's proprietary methodology to estimate salaries is based on an analysis of similar job listings that include salaries. Indeed extracts salaries from all job listings containing this information - about a fifth of the total – and then estimates salaries for the rest. When actual salaries are advertised, they are shown in the search results.
Job seekers can enter any annual salary into the search box on Indeed, returning all jobs estimated to pay at least that much. They can also set up an email job alert to be notified when jobs matching their salary requirements are found. A job seeker looking for a marketing management position paying over $60,000 per year, for example, can search 'Marketing Manager $60k' which returns over seventy thousand jobs nationwide.
More at:www.indeed.com
Indeed, the most comprehensive search engine for jobs, pioneered a radically improved approach to job search. Indeed has given job seekers free access - instantly, in a single search - to millions of jobs from thousands of company websites, job boards, newspapers, blogs and associations. Indeed makes it easy for job seekers to drill down by keyword, location - and now salary - to find exactly the right jobs. With millions of job seekers and over a hundred million job searches per month, Indeed is by far the leading vertical search engine for jobs. Indeed was selected by Time magazine as one of the Top 10 Websites in 2007 and by PC World as one of the Best 50 Websites. Indeed won a 2008 Weddle’s Users’ Choice Award and was named the Best Job Search Engine by Job-hunt.org.
Recent Updates:
Indeed, the most comprehensive search engine for jobs, announced today the launch of Job Search by Salary. This unique feature enables job seekers to find all jobs meeting their salary needs - even when salaries are not advertised by employers. The vast majority of job listings don't include salaries, so Indeed estimates the salaries of millions of such jobs. Job seekers have never been able to search all jobs by salary until now.
Indeed's proprietary methodology to estimate salaries is based on an analysis of similar job listings that include salaries. Indeed extracts salaries from all job listings containing this information - about a fifth of the total – and then estimates salaries for the rest. When actual salaries are advertised, they are shown in the search results.
Job seekers can enter any annual salary into the search box on Indeed, returning all jobs estimated to pay at least that much. They can also set up an email job alert to be notified when jobs matching their salary requirements are found. A job seeker looking for a marketing management position paying over $60,000 per year, for example, can search 'Marketing Manager $60k' which returns over seventy thousand jobs nationwide.
More at:www.indeed.com
FrontStream Payments Inc,provider of payment solutions to SMEs, has raised $16 million in first-round funding
What Company Is Offering:
FrontStream Payments, based in Brentwood, TN, is a leading provider of payments products and services to small and medium-sized businesses and independent credit card sales organizations.
How Much They Got From VCs:
FrontStream Payments Inc., a Brentwood, Tenn.-based provider of payment solutions to SMEs, has raised $16 million in first-round funding. Participants include SSM Partners, Noro-Moseley Partners, Wakefield Group, Southpoint Capital and companymanagement.
FrontStream Payments products and services include turnkey solutions that enable merchants to increase revenues through the acceptance of credit and debit cards. The company also helps drive customer relationship management and loyalty efforts by allowing them to offer their own "branded" loyalty, gift and prepaid cards.
More at:http://www.frontstreampayments.com/
FrontStream Payments, based in Brentwood, TN, is a leading provider of payments products and services to small and medium-sized businesses and independent credit card sales organizations.
How Much They Got From VCs:
FrontStream Payments Inc., a Brentwood, Tenn.-based provider of payment solutions to SMEs, has raised $16 million in first-round funding. Participants include SSM Partners, Noro-Moseley Partners, Wakefield Group, Southpoint Capital and companymanagement.
FrontStream Payments products and services include turnkey solutions that enable merchants to increase revenues through the acceptance of credit and debit cards. The company also helps drive customer relationship management and loyalty efforts by allowing them to offer their own "branded" loyalty, gift and prepaid cards.
More at:http://www.frontstreampayments.com/
RecycleBank, a rewards program that motivates households to recycle has secured $30 million
What Company Is Offering:
RecycleBank is a rewards program that motivates people to recycle. It does this by quickly and easily measuring the amount of material each home recycles and then converting that activity into RecycleBank Reward Points that can be used at hundreds of local and national rewards partners. RecycleBank is simple to implement, market-driven and proven to work, saving municipalities' money and rewarding citizens for their environmental stewardship. RRE Ventures and Sigma Partners are the largest institutional shareholder group and Ron Gonen, the co-founder and CEO is the largest individual shareholder.
How Much They Got From VCs:
RecycleBank, a rewards program that motivates households to recycle, announced today that it has secured $30 million in Series B funding from leading venture capital firms, Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield and Byers (KPCB), RRE Ventures, Sigma Partners and The Westly Group. RecycleBank will be using this funding to rapidly scale in the United States and continue expansion into Europe in the next 24 months.
More at: www.recyclebank.com
RecycleBank is a rewards program that motivates people to recycle. It does this by quickly and easily measuring the amount of material each home recycles and then converting that activity into RecycleBank Reward Points that can be used at hundreds of local and national rewards partners. RecycleBank is simple to implement, market-driven and proven to work, saving municipalities' money and rewarding citizens for their environmental stewardship. RRE Ventures and Sigma Partners are the largest institutional shareholder group and Ron Gonen, the co-founder and CEO is the largest individual shareholder.
How Much They Got From VCs:
RecycleBank, a rewards program that motivates households to recycle, announced today that it has secured $30 million in Series B funding from leading venture capital firms, Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield and Byers (KPCB), RRE Ventures, Sigma Partners and The Westly Group. RecycleBank will be using this funding to rapidly scale in the United States and continue expansion into Europe in the next 24 months.
More at: www.recyclebank.com
Coghead empowers tech-savvy business people and IT professionals to develop applications that automate business operations
What Company Is Offering:
Coghead is a platform for creating, using and sharing applications. Coghead provides a directory where members of the community can publish and subscribe to applications.
Coghead empowers tech-savvy business people and IT professionals to develop applications that automate business operations. By combining the benefits of zero infrastructure, a 100% web-based environment, drag and drop tools, and powerful customization capabilities, Coghead is changing the application development game - in your favor.
How It Works:
With Coghead, you can quickly create custom software and deploy it to colleagues, clients, and employees, real time.
Perhaps best of all, once you become a “Coghead”, you will have the entire Coghead community behind you - contributing applications, sharing solutions, and relating technical advice.
All you need is a browser, an internet connection, and an understanding of your business needs - or those of your clients.
You can create an account and begin right away. Start with a pre-built template from the Coghead application gallery, or build your own from scratch. Or do a little of both! Coghead has specialized templates for creating a nearly limitless range of applications.
More at:https://www.coghead.com/
Coghead is a platform for creating, using and sharing applications. Coghead provides a directory where members of the community can publish and subscribe to applications.
Coghead empowers tech-savvy business people and IT professionals to develop applications that automate business operations. By combining the benefits of zero infrastructure, a 100% web-based environment, drag and drop tools, and powerful customization capabilities, Coghead is changing the application development game - in your favor.
How It Works:
With Coghead, you can quickly create custom software and deploy it to colleagues, clients, and employees, real time.
Perhaps best of all, once you become a “Coghead”, you will have the entire Coghead community behind you - contributing applications, sharing solutions, and relating technical advice.
All you need is a browser, an internet connection, and an understanding of your business needs - or those of your clients.
You can create an account and begin right away. Start with a pre-built template from the Coghead application gallery, or build your own from scratch. Or do a little of both! Coghead has specialized templates for creating a nearly limitless range of applications.
More at:https://www.coghead.com/
StarCite, Inc., the leading provider of on-demand meeting and event management solutions for corporations and hotels, venues has secured $15 million
About Company:
StarCite, Inc. provides a technology platform that makes meeting and event planning, booking and management simpler and more cost-effective for corporations, hotels, venues and meeting suppliers worldwide.
How It Works:
StarCite’s solutions deliver visibility, cost savings, and control over meeting spending for businesses and enhanced revenue opportunities for suppliers. Through Web-based, on-demand technology, StarCite automates and supports every key element of the meeting planning and procurement process: planning, budgeting, buying, attendance, payment, and results measurement. Using StarCite’s proprietary online marketplace, meeting buyers can connect and conduct business with over 93,000 hotels, venues, destinations and suppliers globally.
How Much They Got From VCs:
StarCite, Inc., the leading provider of on-demand meeting and event management solutions for corporations and hotels, venues, and other meeting suppliers, today announced that it from current investors, including Internet Capital Group (NASDAQ: ICGE - News), TPG Ventures, and Norwest Venture Partners (NVP). StarCite plans to use the proceeds from the funding primarily to support its initiatives for both continued global growth and ongoing enhancements to its suite of technology offerings.
StarCite is experiencing increasing growth as more corporations and meeting suppliers utilize its online technology for meeting management. The company estimates that $7.5 billion in meeting and event business passed through StarCite’s online global marketplace in 2007, an increase of approximately 30 percent over its 2006 estimates.
More at:www.starcite.com
StarCite, Inc. provides a technology platform that makes meeting and event planning, booking and management simpler and more cost-effective for corporations, hotels, venues and meeting suppliers worldwide.
How It Works:
StarCite’s solutions deliver visibility, cost savings, and control over meeting spending for businesses and enhanced revenue opportunities for suppliers. Through Web-based, on-demand technology, StarCite automates and supports every key element of the meeting planning and procurement process: planning, budgeting, buying, attendance, payment, and results measurement. Using StarCite’s proprietary online marketplace, meeting buyers can connect and conduct business with over 93,000 hotels, venues, destinations and suppliers globally.
How Much They Got From VCs:
StarCite, Inc., the leading provider of on-demand meeting and event management solutions for corporations and hotels, venues, and other meeting suppliers, today announced that it from current investors, including Internet Capital Group (NASDAQ: ICGE - News), TPG Ventures, and Norwest Venture Partners (NVP). StarCite plans to use the proceeds from the funding primarily to support its initiatives for both continued global growth and ongoing enhancements to its suite of technology offerings.
StarCite is experiencing increasing growth as more corporations and meeting suppliers utilize its online technology for meeting management. The company estimates that $7.5 billion in meeting and event business passed through StarCite’s online global marketplace in 2007, an increase of approximately 30 percent over its 2006 estimates.
More at:www.starcite.com
Cuill, a stealth start-up with a new approach to search got $25 million in funding
What Company Is Offering:
Cuill is a technology start-up pioneering a new approach to search. The team is leveraging their own expertise in search architecture, relevance methods and data analysis to provide users with a better search experience. The company is located on a quiet street in Menlo Park, Calif.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Cuill, a stealth start-up with a new approach to search, announced that the company has secured a second round of equity financing of $25 million, led by Madrone Capital Partners. The Series B investment follows a previous $8 million funding round from Tugboat Ventures and Greylock Partners.
"We are pleased with the confidence of our investors," said Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Tom Costello. "Our team is using breakthroughs in search architecture and technological advances to create a new paradigm in search, and we now have the resources to reach the next level in pure search."
Cuill has assembled a premier team of search experts from Google, IBM, eBay, Alta Vista, Xerox PARC, the Internet Archive and Stanford University. These highly respected search veterans have a proven track record in the search industry and are focused on creating the next generation of search.
More at:http://www.cuill.com
Cuill is a technology start-up pioneering a new approach to search. The team is leveraging their own expertise in search architecture, relevance methods and data analysis to provide users with a better search experience. The company is located on a quiet street in Menlo Park, Calif.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Cuill, a stealth start-up with a new approach to search, announced that the company has secured a second round of equity financing of $25 million, led by Madrone Capital Partners. The Series B investment follows a previous $8 million funding round from Tugboat Ventures and Greylock Partners.
"We are pleased with the confidence of our investors," said Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Tom Costello. "Our team is using breakthroughs in search architecture and technological advances to create a new paradigm in search, and we now have the resources to reach the next level in pure search."
Cuill has assembled a premier team of search experts from Google, IBM, eBay, Alta Vista, Xerox PARC, the Internet Archive and Stanford University. These highly respected search veterans have a proven track record in the search industry and are focused on creating the next generation of search.
More at:http://www.cuill.com
Seero is your platform to broadcast your world and win vacation
What Company Is Offering:
Seero.com is a geo-broadcasting platform for users to broadcast and experience destinations around the world. Seero fuses live and on-demand video with GPS mapping to create a rich and unique user experience. Their goal is to shake the foundations of how you see video with a platform that promotes exploration and geographical awareness.
If you are looking for another typical video site, or 'Television Online', this probably isn't the place for you. If you want to experience a new way to see the world, welcome.
How It Works:
Seero utilizes the vast potential of the internet to create an original brand of content. If you are a citizen journalist, local tour guide, back road explorer, talented performer, or simply have a great destination to unveil, Seero is your platform to broadcast your world.
More at:http://www.seero.com/
Seero.com is a geo-broadcasting platform for users to broadcast and experience destinations around the world. Seero fuses live and on-demand video with GPS mapping to create a rich and unique user experience. Their goal is to shake the foundations of how you see video with a platform that promotes exploration and geographical awareness.
If you are looking for another typical video site, or 'Television Online', this probably isn't the place for you. If you want to experience a new way to see the world, welcome.
How It Works:
Seero utilizes the vast potential of the internet to create an original brand of content. If you are a citizen journalist, local tour guide, back road explorer, talented performer, or simply have a great destination to unveil, Seero is your platform to broadcast your world.
More at:http://www.seero.com/
Localeze is the leading provider of local merchant data for the search and online Yellow Pages industries
What Company Is Offering:
The Localeze data repository brings together local merchant information from several places, including Yellow Pages directories, authorized brand-dealer lists, Web sites and many other sources. What makes this data special is we also collect detailed business information provided by the merchants themselves — the most accurate business data you can find. Using our Web tools, merchants can create and update comprehensive business listings quickly and easily. That way, not only do search engines get the freshest, richest content, but merchants also get the chance to present an accurate, detailed snapshot of their businesses.
How It Works:
Localeze offers the tools you need. They let merchants of all sizes create powerful, rich business listings that don't get buried in search results. While other directories allow you to list only the basic details about your business, our Merchant Profile Manager allows you to add much richer content to your listings - including business category, specific products, brands, services, hours of operation, payment options and much more — making your stores much more "findable" for consumers. That's why more than 250,000 local merchants and a growing list of top retail brands have chosen Localeze to boost their visibility in local searches.
More at:http://www.localeze.com/
The Localeze data repository brings together local merchant information from several places, including Yellow Pages directories, authorized brand-dealer lists, Web sites and many other sources. What makes this data special is we also collect detailed business information provided by the merchants themselves — the most accurate business data you can find. Using our Web tools, merchants can create and update comprehensive business listings quickly and easily. That way, not only do search engines get the freshest, richest content, but merchants also get the chance to present an accurate, detailed snapshot of their businesses.
How It Works:
Localeze offers the tools you need. They let merchants of all sizes create powerful, rich business listings that don't get buried in search results. While other directories allow you to list only the basic details about your business, our Merchant Profile Manager allows you to add much richer content to your listings - including business category, specific products, brands, services, hours of operation, payment options and much more — making your stores much more "findable" for consumers. That's why more than 250,000 local merchants and a growing list of top retail brands have chosen Localeze to boost their visibility in local searches.
More at:http://www.localeze.com/
A Mikon is a symbol about you
What Company Is Offering:
A Mikon is a symbol about you.For example, a Mikon can say I'm from Texas. It's an idea in the form of a picture can say where you're from, what you like to do, what organizations you belong to, what you believe in, anything!
Create or use a mikon for your club. Create or use a Mikon for your clan or guild
your hobbies: biking, scrapbooking, book clubs, drinking, chess, reading, movies
your beliefs: religion, political affiliation, gender identification,
an experience or aspect of your personal story,cancer survivor, entrepreneur,
a concept you want to share
your preferences: paper or plastic? coffee or tea? vinyl or digital?
A company has one and only one logo but thats not enough to describe who you are!
With multiple Mikons, you make a sentence of symbols. The old saw is A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words. What does a dozen Mikons say?
How It Works:
Sign up to establish your unique login ID and password.
Use the Mikon Machine™, our cool vector drawing tool, to create the symbols that tell your story. You can design from scratch or remix other graphics to build your personal set of Mikons.
Publish your Mikons and choose how you would like to share them, possibly with your family, friends, and co-workers; or you can always keep them private.
Connect with other Mikoners, search for people with similar Mikons, join a community, email a fellow Mikoner, view your friends list and much more!
More at:http://www.mikons.com/
A Mikon is a symbol about you.For example, a Mikon can say I'm from Texas. It's an idea in the form of a picture can say where you're from, what you like to do, what organizations you belong to, what you believe in, anything!
Create or use a mikon for your club. Create or use a Mikon for your clan or guild
your hobbies: biking, scrapbooking, book clubs, drinking, chess, reading, movies
your beliefs: religion, political affiliation, gender identification,
an experience or aspect of your personal story,cancer survivor, entrepreneur,
a concept you want to share
your preferences: paper or plastic? coffee or tea? vinyl or digital?
A company has one and only one logo but thats not enough to describe who you are!
With multiple Mikons, you make a sentence of symbols. The old saw is A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words. What does a dozen Mikons say?
How It Works:
Sign up to establish your unique login ID and password.
Use the Mikon Machine™, our cool vector drawing tool, to create the symbols that tell your story. You can design from scratch or remix other graphics to build your personal set of Mikons.
Publish your Mikons and choose how you would like to share them, possibly with your family, friends, and co-workers; or you can always keep them private.
Connect with other Mikoners, search for people with similar Mikons, join a community, email a fellow Mikoner, view your friends list and much more!
More at:http://www.mikons.com/
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Social Networking Site for Virtual Assistants
What Company Is Offering:
The Alliance of Virtual Assistants is the “newest kid on the block” in the world of Virtual Assistant networking sites. It is a bit different to others in that it is based on the social networking model. AVA gives its members their own page to express their personality, groups, blogs, a forum, and the ability to upload videos and pictures.
AVA is a great way for Virtual Assistants to connect with each other and with the public.
How It Works:
If someone is looking for a VA, they can go to the site and post an RFP which will be sent to all the members of the network. AVA will give Virtual Assistants a venue to share with each other, support each other, and socialize with each other.
The Alliance of Virtual Assistants is giving away a free gift to the first Virtual Assistants that join. “Essential Article Marketing Secrets” an e-book written by Darrell Williams will be emailed to the first 50 VAs who sign up. As AVA grows, it will also offer advertising space, resources, contests and events. Williams says, “We want to see a real community grow out of AVA.”
More at:
Right-Hand-Man Virtual Assistant Services
Darrell A. Williams
902-367-5019
darrell@righthandmanva.com
www.righthandmanva.com
http://www.allianceva.ning.com
The Alliance of Virtual Assistants is the “newest kid on the block” in the world of Virtual Assistant networking sites. It is a bit different to others in that it is based on the social networking model. AVA gives its members their own page to express their personality, groups, blogs, a forum, and the ability to upload videos and pictures.
AVA is a great way for Virtual Assistants to connect with each other and with the public.
How It Works:
If someone is looking for a VA, they can go to the site and post an RFP which will be sent to all the members of the network. AVA will give Virtual Assistants a venue to share with each other, support each other, and socialize with each other.
The Alliance of Virtual Assistants is giving away a free gift to the first Virtual Assistants that join. “Essential Article Marketing Secrets” an e-book written by Darrell Williams will be emailed to the first 50 VAs who sign up. As AVA grows, it will also offer advertising space, resources, contests and events. Williams says, “We want to see a real community grow out of AVA.”
More at:
Right-Hand-Man Virtual Assistant Services
Darrell A. Williams
902-367-5019
darrell@righthandmanva.com
www.righthandmanva.com
http://www.allianceva.ning.com
TronMe ---anyone can mix and perform their favorites live on MSN, Skype, or even YouTube
What Company Is Offering:
TronMe is brand new, it's in the starting blocks and ready to explode into the home entertainment arena.Using TronMe software anyone can mix and perform their favorites live on MSN, Skype, or even YouTube; it's a whole new level of interactivity that is certain to appeal to wannabe performers of all ages. This fresh technology works with a new audio format - .IVS Each song is separated into different tracks or building blocks and the software mixes these back together based on the movements detected through the computer's web cam to provide an exclusive mix every time.
Buyers will choose songs from their website, in the .IVS format for use with their TronMe software. If your tracks are among their favorites then they will be looking to buy them. Make sure your tracks are there - don't miss the opportunity to jump on board the IVS revolution.
How It Works:
TronMe is controlled purely from the webcam or the mouse and, from the movements detected, the program creates a unique mix of the track. The player has total control of how the mix sounds. The direction of the movement determines which instrument plays. Stay in the middle and they are equal, move higher and the percussion is dominant. There is no end to the options and possibilities. Of course, no one ever moves the exact same way twice and so each time a song is played an entirely new mix is created. There are also plenty of effects to add onto the video to make the end result exceptionally professional.
TronMe is compatible with MSN, Skype and, of course, the home video recorder; the performance can be made all the more exciting by an audience or it can just be recorded in mp3 or avi to be watched back later.
More at:http://www.tronme.com/
TronMe is brand new, it's in the starting blocks and ready to explode into the home entertainment arena.Using TronMe software anyone can mix and perform their favorites live on MSN, Skype, or even YouTube; it's a whole new level of interactivity that is certain to appeal to wannabe performers of all ages. This fresh technology works with a new audio format - .IVS Each song is separated into different tracks or building blocks and the software mixes these back together based on the movements detected through the computer's web cam to provide an exclusive mix every time.
Buyers will choose songs from their website, in the .IVS format for use with their TronMe software. If your tracks are among their favorites then they will be looking to buy them. Make sure your tracks are there - don't miss the opportunity to jump on board the IVS revolution.
How It Works:
TronMe is controlled purely from the webcam or the mouse and, from the movements detected, the program creates a unique mix of the track. The player has total control of how the mix sounds. The direction of the movement determines which instrument plays. Stay in the middle and they are equal, move higher and the percussion is dominant. There is no end to the options and possibilities. Of course, no one ever moves the exact same way twice and so each time a song is played an entirely new mix is created. There are also plenty of effects to add onto the video to make the end result exceptionally professional.
TronMe is compatible with MSN, Skype and, of course, the home video recorder; the performance can be made all the more exciting by an audience or it can just be recorded in mp3 or avi to be watched back later.
More at:http://www.tronme.com/
Akken provides On Demand software solutions for staffing and recruiting companies to run their entire business with one simple, integrated, web-based
What Company Is Offering:
Akken provides On Demand software solutions for staffing and recruiting companies to run their entire business with one simple, integrated, web-based system. Their flagship product, Akken Staffing combines on-demand staffing and recruiting software with Email, Applicant Tracking, CRM, Accounting, Human Resource Management, Business Intelligence, and more. They help their clients automate processes across all business functions, allowing them to generate more revenues and profits faster and easier while providing unparalleled client service.
How It Works:
They can provide companies of any size an affordable, completely integrated and customizable system that automates their mundane, time consuming tasks and lets them focus on key revenue generating activities – building and strengthening relationships.
With no software or hardware to buy, install, maintain, or upgrade, the choice to go with an on-demand service offering makes sense for organizations that want to do more with less.
With Akken Staffing, you can realize the highest level of automation in the industry, all for a lower price than most spend on their applicant tracking software alone.
Earn money or free months of service with the all new Akken Referral Program. The Akken Referral Program is intended to reward Akken clients, business partners, consultants, and complementary product resellers who are constantly asked to recommend staffing and recruiting software.
More at:http://www.akken.com/
Akken provides On Demand software solutions for staffing and recruiting companies to run their entire business with one simple, integrated, web-based system. Their flagship product, Akken Staffing combines on-demand staffing and recruiting software with Email, Applicant Tracking, CRM, Accounting, Human Resource Management, Business Intelligence, and more. They help their clients automate processes across all business functions, allowing them to generate more revenues and profits faster and easier while providing unparalleled client service.
How It Works:
They can provide companies of any size an affordable, completely integrated and customizable system that automates their mundane, time consuming tasks and lets them focus on key revenue generating activities – building and strengthening relationships.
With no software or hardware to buy, install, maintain, or upgrade, the choice to go with an on-demand service offering makes sense for organizations that want to do more with less.
With Akken Staffing, you can realize the highest level of automation in the industry, all for a lower price than most spend on their applicant tracking software alone.
Earn money or free months of service with the all new Akken Referral Program. The Akken Referral Program is intended to reward Akken clients, business partners, consultants, and complementary product resellers who are constantly asked to recommend staffing and recruiting software.
More at:http://www.akken.com/
TP2Location ---Resolve any telephone number to its geographical location.
About Company:
International format of a phone number is the format that some one from out side of your country used to call your number or the format that you use to call some one who live in another country.
Basically a phone number is composed of 4-5 parts. For example :
0044(0)20 8745 5555
00 - IDD Prefix
44 - Country Code
(0) - NDD Prefix (National Direct Dialing Prefix) - Used to call from one city to another city within a Country.
20 8745 5555 - Area Code + Subscriber Number
In the international format, the NDD prefix will NOT be used. Only the following portions are used.
IDD Prefix + Country Code + (Area Code + Subscriber Number)
* The NDD prefix and the IDD Prefix are varies from country to country. Here you can find more dialing rules.
So what happened if i insert a phone number in to TP2Location search box without considering these stuffs ?
Yes, You can insert any phone number without considering these stuffs. But we really need a country code has to be included in the phone number. We format the number you enter using our formula to match our pattern in the database. In case if you did not get the expected result, then you should try enter the number without the NDD Prefix.
More at:http://www.tp2location.com/
International format of a phone number is the format that some one from out side of your country used to call your number or the format that you use to call some one who live in another country.
Basically a phone number is composed of 4-5 parts. For example :
0044(0)20 8745 5555
00 - IDD Prefix
44 - Country Code
(0) - NDD Prefix (National Direct Dialing Prefix) - Used to call from one city to another city within a Country.
20 8745 5555 - Area Code + Subscriber Number
In the international format, the NDD prefix will NOT be used. Only the following portions are used.
IDD Prefix + Country Code + (Area Code + Subscriber Number)
* The NDD prefix and the IDD Prefix are varies from country to country. Here you can find more dialing rules.
So what happened if i insert a phone number in to TP2Location search box without considering these stuffs ?
Yes, You can insert any phone number without considering these stuffs. But we really need a country code has to be included in the phone number. We format the number you enter using our formula to match our pattern in the database. In case if you did not get the expected result, then you should try enter the number without the NDD Prefix.
More at:http://www.tp2location.com/
MyriadHealth, an internet software and services claims developer, announced a $1.5 million fund raise
What Company Is Offering:
MyriadHealth, focuses on internet delivery of software and services to healthcare claims administrators. The current management builds on over 25 years of experience in industry. The company has patents pending on its proprietary software. The MyriadHealth system is a web-based, real time claims management platform used by third party administrators and self-administered health plans.
How Much They Got From VCs:
MyriadHealth, an internet software and services claims developer, announced today a $1.5 million fund raise. The Innovation Ohio Fund (IOF), which was approved by the Development Financing Advisory Council on March 31 and is pending approval of the State Controlling Board, led the round with a $750,000 investment that was matched by angel investors. The funding will be used for real-time direct integration of Provider Electronic Medical Records with Practice Management Systems.
“The Innovation Ohio Fund and our angel investor have been very responsive and supportive of MyriadHealth’s mission to revolutionize healthcare through innovative technology,” said Pamela S. Priddy, President & CEO of MyriadHealth. “The increased funding will afford Myriad the opportunity to move our technology forward, not only on a local level but nationally also. BioEnterprise played a large role and has been a paramount partner; we are appreciative of the guidance and expertise provided by the organization.”
More at:http://myriadhealth.com/
MyriadHealth, focuses on internet delivery of software and services to healthcare claims administrators. The current management builds on over 25 years of experience in industry. The company has patents pending on its proprietary software. The MyriadHealth system is a web-based, real time claims management platform used by third party administrators and self-administered health plans.
How Much They Got From VCs:
MyriadHealth, an internet software and services claims developer, announced today a $1.5 million fund raise. The Innovation Ohio Fund (IOF), which was approved by the Development Financing Advisory Council on March 31 and is pending approval of the State Controlling Board, led the round with a $750,000 investment that was matched by angel investors. The funding will be used for real-time direct integration of Provider Electronic Medical Records with Practice Management Systems.
“The Innovation Ohio Fund and our angel investor have been very responsive and supportive of MyriadHealth’s mission to revolutionize healthcare through innovative technology,” said Pamela S. Priddy, President & CEO of MyriadHealth. “The increased funding will afford Myriad the opportunity to move our technology forward, not only on a local level but nationally also. BioEnterprise played a large role and has been a paramount partner; we are appreciative of the guidance and expertise provided by the organization.”
More at:http://myriadhealth.com/
Realtime Worlds, a leading independent video game developer, has raised $50 million
What Company Is Offering:
Realtime Worlds is one of the largest and most successful independent game developers in the world. With an exceptionally talented staff of more than 200, its experienced teams have a tremendous history of creating some of the world's bestselling video games, including the global hit franchises 'Lemmings' and 'Grand Theft Auto.' In 2006, Realtime Worlds received a US$31 million investment commitment from New Enterprise Associates, one of the world's leading venture capital firms.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Realtime Worlds, a leading independent video game developer, today announced that it has raised $50 million USD in Series B funding. Maverick Capital, the renowned investment firm founded by Lee Ainslie, led the new investment round with existing investor New Enterprise Associates and WPP, a world leader in marketing communications services. The Series B investment will support Realtime Worlds’ continued growth and expansion as the company develops new creative properties and brings innovative online gaming experiences to market.
More at:www.realtimeworlds.com
Realtime Worlds is one of the largest and most successful independent game developers in the world. With an exceptionally talented staff of more than 200, its experienced teams have a tremendous history of creating some of the world's bestselling video games, including the global hit franchises 'Lemmings' and 'Grand Theft Auto.' In 2006, Realtime Worlds received a US$31 million investment commitment from New Enterprise Associates, one of the world's leading venture capital firms.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Realtime Worlds, a leading independent video game developer, today announced that it has raised $50 million USD in Series B funding. Maverick Capital, the renowned investment firm founded by Lee Ainslie, led the new investment round with existing investor New Enterprise Associates and WPP, a world leader in marketing communications services. The Series B investment will support Realtime Worlds’ continued growth and expansion as the company develops new creative properties and brings innovative online gaming experiences to market.
More at:www.realtimeworlds.com
Move Networks, a leading provider of high definition online television services got $46 million Series C funding
What Company Is Offering:
Move Networks, Inc. is a leading provider of online television services that drive the growth and support of online audiences for leading broadcasters and publishers including ABC, the CW, Discovery, ESPN, and Fox. The video technologies and services developed and managed by Move Networks enable leading brands to cost-effectively and reliably deliver live and on-demand HD quality programming to millions of people without the buffering, stalling, and low-quality viewing experiences common with competing technologies.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Move Networks, a leading provider of high definition online television services, announced a $46 million Series C funding round led by Benchmark Capital that includes global technology leaders Cisco, Comcast Interactive Media (a division of Comcast Corp.), Televisa, as well as previous investors Steamboat Ventures and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.
"Viewers are demanding higher quality video at anytime and any place. Move's platform provides a solution that maximizes quality while at the same time meeting the demands of scalability and profits," said John Edwards, CEO of Move Networks. "This funding round is further validation by leading digital new media companies and infrastructure providers that Move Networks has the delivery services uniquely designed to meet the online monetization mandate of the world's largest media companies."
"The consumer experience is a central component to the future growth of broadband video," said Ian Blaine, CEO of thePlatform, SVP Content Publishing for Comcast Interactive Media. "Consumers expect online video to mirror their television or DVD experience today. Companies such as Move Networks will play a key role going forward."
More at:http://www.movenetworks.com/
Move Networks, Inc. is a leading provider of online television services that drive the growth and support of online audiences for leading broadcasters and publishers including ABC, the CW, Discovery, ESPN, and Fox. The video technologies and services developed and managed by Move Networks enable leading brands to cost-effectively and reliably deliver live and on-demand HD quality programming to millions of people without the buffering, stalling, and low-quality viewing experiences common with competing technologies.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Move Networks, a leading provider of high definition online television services, announced a $46 million Series C funding round led by Benchmark Capital that includes global technology leaders Cisco, Comcast Interactive Media (a division of Comcast Corp.), Televisa, as well as previous investors Steamboat Ventures and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.
"Viewers are demanding higher quality video at anytime and any place. Move's platform provides a solution that maximizes quality while at the same time meeting the demands of scalability and profits," said John Edwards, CEO of Move Networks. "This funding round is further validation by leading digital new media companies and infrastructure providers that Move Networks has the delivery services uniquely designed to meet the online monetization mandate of the world's largest media companies."
"The consumer experience is a central component to the future growth of broadband video," said Ian Blaine, CEO of thePlatform, SVP Content Publishing for Comcast Interactive Media. "Consumers expect online video to mirror their television or DVD experience today. Companies such as Move Networks will play a key role going forward."
More at:http://www.movenetworks.com/
Dash Navigation Inc,provider of Internet-connected automotive GPS devices, has called down $30.2 million of a $35 million Series C round
What Company Is Offering:
Dash Express is the first GPS device designed from the ground up as a truly “connected” navigation experience. Unlike old school GPS devices, Dash isn't focused on giving you just a single route from A to B, but is instead driven to give you instant access to the most relevant information about everything in between and the best way to get there. Today that means offering you access to dynamic Web content and the most accurate and up to date traffic. Tomorrow, we believe the possibilities are endless.
At Dash, they're focused on delivering these solutions with daily relevance and optimized for a “65 MPH” interface. The unique server-based architecture we have created also lets us optimize how information is formatted and sent to your device, as well as allowing each device to be updated over the air with the very latest software and features. The two feature areas where they have put most of their initial focus are providing better traffic and better search/destination information.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Dash Navigation Inc., a Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of Internet-connected automotive GPS devices, has called down $30.2 million of a $35 million Series C round, according to a regulatory filing.
Return backers include Crescendo Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sequoia Capital, Skymoon Ventures and ZenShin Capital Partners. www.dash.net
More at:http://www.dash.net/
Dash Express is the first GPS device designed from the ground up as a truly “connected” navigation experience. Unlike old school GPS devices, Dash isn't focused on giving you just a single route from A to B, but is instead driven to give you instant access to the most relevant information about everything in between and the best way to get there. Today that means offering you access to dynamic Web content and the most accurate and up to date traffic. Tomorrow, we believe the possibilities are endless.
At Dash, they're focused on delivering these solutions with daily relevance and optimized for a “65 MPH” interface. The unique server-based architecture we have created also lets us optimize how information is formatted and sent to your device, as well as allowing each device to be updated over the air with the very latest software and features. The two feature areas where they have put most of their initial focus are providing better traffic and better search/destination information.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Dash Navigation Inc., a Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of Internet-connected automotive GPS devices, has called down $30.2 million of a $35 million Series C round, according to a regulatory filing.
Return backers include Crescendo Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sequoia Capital, Skymoon Ventures and ZenShin Capital Partners. www.dash.net
More at:http://www.dash.net/
CureHunter
What Company Is Offering:
CureHunter is not a doctor. It is a robot. A smart robot, but only a machine that knows nothing about you as a specific patient, and nothing about your specific health history, diagnosis, and clinical test results. It cannot give medical advice nor prescribe medication. CureHunter can only provide supporting information for review and consideration by your doctor.
How It Works:
CureHunter provides data for both Clinical and Biomedical research. Animal studies often provide leading indicators of what new drugs will be available in the future or critical insights into the behavior of important biologically active molecules influencing a drug's primary mechanism of action. CureHunter does not use the concept of "relevance ranking" at all. All its data extractions (search results) must be precisely relevant to start with. A very advanced natural language processing module has the task of reading the literature the same way a human scientist would. There are no "top 10 or 20" supposedly important articles followed by millions of "hits found" of totally irrelevant or weakly related information.
How Is It Different:
CureHunter is unlike Google and ordinary search engines used in general commerce and health information retrieval in several important ways--including its basic theory of operation. CureHunter is built on the model of scientific instruments. The machine must control samples and sample preparation. It must produce testable results consistently and be subject to test by other methods of analysis outside itself to provide 3rd party validation of its conclusions and returns. It must also have extremely large and carefully controlled technical medical dictionaries that are generally not found in common search engines that fail to recognize many words in the scientific research and thus deliver incorrect results
More at:http://www.curehunter.com/
CureHunter is not a doctor. It is a robot. A smart robot, but only a machine that knows nothing about you as a specific patient, and nothing about your specific health history, diagnosis, and clinical test results. It cannot give medical advice nor prescribe medication. CureHunter can only provide supporting information for review and consideration by your doctor.
How It Works:
CureHunter provides data for both Clinical and Biomedical research. Animal studies often provide leading indicators of what new drugs will be available in the future or critical insights into the behavior of important biologically active molecules influencing a drug's primary mechanism of action. CureHunter does not use the concept of "relevance ranking" at all. All its data extractions (search results) must be precisely relevant to start with. A very advanced natural language processing module has the task of reading the literature the same way a human scientist would. There are no "top 10 or 20" supposedly important articles followed by millions of "hits found" of totally irrelevant or weakly related information.
How Is It Different:
CureHunter is unlike Google and ordinary search engines used in general commerce and health information retrieval in several important ways--including its basic theory of operation. CureHunter is built on the model of scientific instruments. The machine must control samples and sample preparation. It must produce testable results consistently and be subject to test by other methods of analysis outside itself to provide 3rd party validation of its conclusions and returns. It must also have extremely large and carefully controlled technical medical dictionaries that are generally not found in common search engines that fail to recognize many words in the scientific research and thus deliver incorrect results
More at:http://www.curehunter.com/
Eco-Libris enables people and organizations to take a simple step in support of environmental sustainability, fighting climate change
What Company Says:
Once upon a time there was Ex-Libris (a Latin phrase meaning ‘from the books’), a label people used to paste on their books to indicate ownership. They see Eco-Libris as the new, green version of Ex-Libris. In their vision people will balance out their books by planting trees and will indicate their commitment to sustainability by putting an Eco-Libris sticker on the sleeves of these books.
As people once showed their love for books with Ex-Libris, they hope to see people show their love for books and the environment with Eco-Libris.
How It Works:
A tree (actually 1.3 trees - for example, 13 trees are planted for every 10 you pay for, as detailed below) will be planted by our planting partners for every book you balance out. You will also receive an Eco-Libris sticker to put on your book and demonstrate your commitment to the environment, with the sticker saying "One tree was planted for this book."
Based on the expected time-frames of their planting partners, trees will be planted within a year of the date of your payment. They are proud to be working with planting partners who take their job seriously and therefore, even if it takes some time to see the trees you pay for being planted, knowing that the process is handled in the most professional way possible makes it worthwhile.
You can also rest assured every tree you pay for is 100% accretive - when you pay for a tree, a new tree will be planted (actually, 1.3 trees, to make sure at least one will survive). Without your contribution, this tree will not have been planted. Our planting partners are aware of the significance of this issue to us and our annual assessments will include a verification of their compliance to make sure our promise to you is kept.
More at:http://www.ecolibris.net/
Once upon a time there was Ex-Libris (a Latin phrase meaning ‘from the books’), a label people used to paste on their books to indicate ownership. They see Eco-Libris as the new, green version of Ex-Libris. In their vision people will balance out their books by planting trees and will indicate their commitment to sustainability by putting an Eco-Libris sticker on the sleeves of these books.
As people once showed their love for books with Ex-Libris, they hope to see people show their love for books and the environment with Eco-Libris.
How It Works:
A tree (actually 1.3 trees - for example, 13 trees are planted for every 10 you pay for, as detailed below) will be planted by our planting partners for every book you balance out. You will also receive an Eco-Libris sticker to put on your book and demonstrate your commitment to the environment, with the sticker saying "One tree was planted for this book."
Based on the expected time-frames of their planting partners, trees will be planted within a year of the date of your payment. They are proud to be working with planting partners who take their job seriously and therefore, even if it takes some time to see the trees you pay for being planted, knowing that the process is handled in the most professional way possible makes it worthwhile.
You can also rest assured every tree you pay for is 100% accretive - when you pay for a tree, a new tree will be planted (actually, 1.3 trees, to make sure at least one will survive). Without your contribution, this tree will not have been planted. Our planting partners are aware of the significance of this issue to us and our annual assessments will include a verification of their compliance to make sure our promise to you is kept.
More at:http://www.ecolibris.net/
Jodange--Predicting outcomes and planning strategy through deeper understanding of opinion holders' sentiment over time
What Company Is Offering:
Jodange is a unique, powerful, new search capability that goes beyond keywords and objective data and into the realm of opinions, or sentiment. Jodange provides the ability to isolate people's opinion and sentiment about key topics over time. Focusing on these elements allows a better understanding of who is worth listening to and how best to correlate their opinions to outcomes over time.Predicting outcomes and planning strategy through deeper understanding of opinion holders' sentiment over time.
Consider the ability to track 40 experts on oil prices or interest rates, find out when their opinions change and have the forensic ability not only to isolate their specific remarks, but to also track the change in sentiment relative to a specific market index such as crude oil or interest rate futures.
How It Works:
Jodange's service uses linguistic analysis to extract opinion data from documents and identify the opinion holder and topic each opinion expression. The relationship between Opinion Holder, Opinion, and Topic is the central theme underlying all our applications. By identifying and isolating peoples' opinions and sentiments about key topics over time, we are able to understand who is worth listening to and how best to correlate their opinions to outcomes over time. They ignore any sentence or phrase deemed to be factual, and instead focus on phrases that are subjective in order to determine the sentiment (positive, neutral, or negative) of the subjective statement.
The wealth of information that can be extracted from documents using Jodange's technology for identifying opinion holder, opinion, and topic can be used to answer questions such as:
What do CEO's worldwide think about subprime lending?.
What companies mentioned research and development in their earnings reports last quarter?.
What does Steve Jobs have to say on the topic of innovation?.
More at:http://www.jodange.com/
Jodange is a unique, powerful, new search capability that goes beyond keywords and objective data and into the realm of opinions, or sentiment. Jodange provides the ability to isolate people's opinion and sentiment about key topics over time. Focusing on these elements allows a better understanding of who is worth listening to and how best to correlate their opinions to outcomes over time.Predicting outcomes and planning strategy through deeper understanding of opinion holders' sentiment over time.
Consider the ability to track 40 experts on oil prices or interest rates, find out when their opinions change and have the forensic ability not only to isolate their specific remarks, but to also track the change in sentiment relative to a specific market index such as crude oil or interest rate futures.
How It Works:
Jodange's service uses linguistic analysis to extract opinion data from documents and identify the opinion holder and topic each opinion expression. The relationship between Opinion Holder, Opinion, and Topic is the central theme underlying all our applications. By identifying and isolating peoples' opinions and sentiments about key topics over time, we are able to understand who is worth listening to and how best to correlate their opinions to outcomes over time. They ignore any sentence or phrase deemed to be factual, and instead focus on phrases that are subjective in order to determine the sentiment (positive, neutral, or negative) of the subjective statement.
The wealth of information that can be extracted from documents using Jodange's technology for identifying opinion holder, opinion, and topic can be used to answer questions such as:
What do CEO's worldwide think about subprime lending?.
What companies mentioned research and development in their earnings reports last quarter?.
What does Steve Jobs have to say on the topic of innovation?.
More at:http://www.jodange.com/
VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks
What Company Is Offering:
VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks.
How It Works:
The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web. I truly hope this space can inspire, motivate and enlighten any person doing research on this field.
They either provide advancement in terms of visual depiction techniques/methods or show conceptual uniqueness and originality in the choice of a subject. Nevertheless, all projects have one trait in common: the whole is always more than the sum of its parts.
More at:http://www.visualcomplexity.com/
VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks.
How It Works:
The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web. I truly hope this space can inspire, motivate and enlighten any person doing research on this field.
They either provide advancement in terms of visual depiction techniques/methods or show conceptual uniqueness and originality in the choice of a subject. Nevertheless, all projects have one trait in common: the whole is always more than the sum of its parts.
More at:http://www.visualcomplexity.com/
Infinity is a progressive finance organisation for UK
What Company Is Offering:
Infinity is a progressive finance organisation specialising in the finance of vehicles to consumers purchased through motor dealerships throughout the UK mainland.
How It Works:
Once you have chosen a vehicle you want to buy just call them with the details and they'll email the documents to the dealer for you to sign while you're there. They'll also speak to the dealer to ensure the process is dealt with quickly for you.
They then organise paying the dealer immediately. Once the dealer is in receipt of the funds, you'll drive the vehicle away. The process is simple, quick and if the dealer asks, you just tell them that Infinity will organise the deal and payment direct with them. As a matter of course we organise an HPI on the vehicle for you (free of charge) and will advise you if there are any issues.
More at:http://www.infinitycarfinance.co.uk/
Infinity is a progressive finance organisation specialising in the finance of vehicles to consumers purchased through motor dealerships throughout the UK mainland.
How It Works:
Once you have chosen a vehicle you want to buy just call them with the details and they'll email the documents to the dealer for you to sign while you're there. They'll also speak to the dealer to ensure the process is dealt with quickly for you.
They then organise paying the dealer immediately. Once the dealer is in receipt of the funds, you'll drive the vehicle away. The process is simple, quick and if the dealer asks, you just tell them that Infinity will organise the deal and payment direct with them. As a matter of course we organise an HPI on the vehicle for you (free of charge) and will advise you if there are any issues.
More at:http://www.infinitycarfinance.co.uk/
Monday, April 14, 2008
Apricado Music Downloads set to Revolutionize On-line Music Purchasing
About Company:
Apricado Music Downloads, a new project from Animikii Inc. lead by CEO Jeff Ward, is set to revolutionize how independent artists interact with consumers on-line.With Apricado, they wanted to streamline consumer ability to purchase direct from the artists.
How It Works:
Upload your first song and get started.Your store is instantly set up and your first track is now for sale.Grab a widget for your MySpace or Facebook profile.
Using Apricado’s "single page check-out" system, consumers won’t have to leave the page to purchase music and they won’t be required to first create an account. Payments are quick and easy.
Artists receive an almost unheard of 80% of the sale of their song. Many other digital retail outlets currently only pay 50%.
More at:http://www.apricado.com/
Apricado Music Downloads, a new project from Animikii Inc. lead by CEO Jeff Ward, is set to revolutionize how independent artists interact with consumers on-line.With Apricado, they wanted to streamline consumer ability to purchase direct from the artists.
How It Works:
Upload your first song and get started.Your store is instantly set up and your first track is now for sale.Grab a widget for your MySpace or Facebook profile.
Using Apricado’s "single page check-out" system, consumers won’t have to leave the page to purchase music and they won’t be required to first create an account. Payments are quick and easy.
Artists receive an almost unheard of 80% of the sale of their song. Many other digital retail outlets currently only pay 50%.
More at:http://www.apricado.com/
Rehashing is a way for you to trade your clothing and accessories with others
What Company Is Offering:
Rehashing is a way for you to trade your clothing and accessories with others. You can join groups, socialize, and get fashion as well as green living advice.
How It Works:
By Rehashing, you can shop for clothes without spending a penny, all while helping the environment. Oh, and did we mention it's free? Rehashing, at its most basic definition, is a way to swap your clothes with others. To "Rehash" is to place an item (a Rehash) up for trade. Others can see your items and offer you their items in exchange for something you have that they like. If you like what they're giving you, accept the trade and you'll be wearing new threads in no time.
When you accept a trade with a user where you have agreed to trade by mail, you will need to provide your mailing address. They give this information to the other user and in return you receive theirs. No one else has access to this information.
More at:http://rehashclothes.com/
Rehashing is a way for you to trade your clothing and accessories with others. You can join groups, socialize, and get fashion as well as green living advice.
How It Works:
By Rehashing, you can shop for clothes without spending a penny, all while helping the environment. Oh, and did we mention it's free? Rehashing, at its most basic definition, is a way to swap your clothes with others. To "Rehash" is to place an item (a Rehash) up for trade. Others can see your items and offer you their items in exchange for something you have that they like. If you like what they're giving you, accept the trade and you'll be wearing new threads in no time.
When you accept a trade with a user where you have agreed to trade by mail, you will need to provide your mailing address. They give this information to the other user and in return you receive theirs. No one else has access to this information.
More at:http://rehashclothes.com/
Buru.com is a social filtering platform
What Company Says:
Everyone is a guru on something. At buru.com, anybody can be a guru by making a
buru - a box for organizing and streaming information on any topic of interest.
Buru.com was born with the belief that people can get more valuable information on what they are interested in when the information is human filtered and organized. We call such user filtered content on a specific topic "buru". So, a buru represents your interest and it may contain anything – a collection of extreme sports videos, an illustrated selection of French recipes, a list of accounting job postings, a set of useful web sites for SAT preparation, a wish list for the upcoming birthday, or news about Silicon Valley startups, for example.
How It Works:
Buru.com is a social filtering platform where you can create and manage private or publicly shared burus on your interests and also search and get recommendations of other people’s burus. Once you find interesting burus, you are able to not only copy the items you like from those burus but also subscribe to the burus of your ongoing interests so that you can further filter and organize them according to your own needs. Through this buru circulation mechanism, burus evolve dynamically and grow quickly over time as more and more people participate. As a result, the burus you discover at buru.com will contain all the valuable information you need since they represent the results of social filtering.
Using buru.com is easy. Join buru.com today to save time by managing your interests in one place, and start filtering your web life!
More at:http://www.buru.com/
Everyone is a guru on something. At buru.com, anybody can be a guru by making a
buru - a box for organizing and streaming information on any topic of interest.
Buru.com was born with the belief that people can get more valuable information on what they are interested in when the information is human filtered and organized. We call such user filtered content on a specific topic "buru". So, a buru represents your interest and it may contain anything – a collection of extreme sports videos, an illustrated selection of French recipes, a list of accounting job postings, a set of useful web sites for SAT preparation, a wish list for the upcoming birthday, or news about Silicon Valley startups, for example.
How It Works:
Buru.com is a social filtering platform where you can create and manage private or publicly shared burus on your interests and also search and get recommendations of other people’s burus. Once you find interesting burus, you are able to not only copy the items you like from those burus but also subscribe to the burus of your ongoing interests so that you can further filter and organize them according to your own needs. Through this buru circulation mechanism, burus evolve dynamically and grow quickly over time as more and more people participate. As a result, the burus you discover at buru.com will contain all the valuable information you need since they represent the results of social filtering.
Using buru.com is easy. Join buru.com today to save time by managing your interests in one place, and start filtering your web life!
More at:http://www.buru.com/
Cutcaster is a consumer friendly, dynamic marketplace to license digital videos, motion graphics and photos
What Company Is Offering:
Cutcaster is a consumer friendly, dynamic marketplace to license digital videos, motion graphics and photos. They are the first licensing platform, which lets sellers set their prices or choose to use the Cutcaster algorithm to correctly find the market price. On the other hand, buyers can download immediately or bid on content, which a seller can accept, decline or submit a new offer back to that buyer. Whether seller or buyer, you are in control.
How It Works:
They help buyers find what they are looking for and easily allow them to license content ala carte and on demand from their community of quality content producers. In addition, buyers can submit a request to the community for specific content, which they can't find or is not in the marketplace.
Sellers can easily upload content, store it, choose from a menu of pricing and licensing options, while always remaining in control and the owner of the content they create. They only collect a moderate percentage of the selling price for promoting, hosting, technology costs and order fulfillment.
It is FREE to use, search, upload and store as much digital video and photos as you want as long as it doesn't violate thei copyright policy and contributor agreement. Signing up is easy and we don't share your information.
Cutcaster's proprietary pricing algorithm takes the work out of determining and maximizing your content's revenue by changing its price to match the demand in the marketplace. All you have to do is set an initial price.
More at:http://www.cutcaster.com/
Cutcaster is a consumer friendly, dynamic marketplace to license digital videos, motion graphics and photos. They are the first licensing platform, which lets sellers set their prices or choose to use the Cutcaster algorithm to correctly find the market price. On the other hand, buyers can download immediately or bid on content, which a seller can accept, decline or submit a new offer back to that buyer. Whether seller or buyer, you are in control.
How It Works:
They help buyers find what they are looking for and easily allow them to license content ala carte and on demand from their community of quality content producers. In addition, buyers can submit a request to the community for specific content, which they can't find or is not in the marketplace.
Sellers can easily upload content, store it, choose from a menu of pricing and licensing options, while always remaining in control and the owner of the content they create. They only collect a moderate percentage of the selling price for promoting, hosting, technology costs and order fulfillment.
It is FREE to use, search, upload and store as much digital video and photos as you want as long as it doesn't violate thei copyright policy and contributor agreement. Signing up is easy and we don't share your information.
Cutcaster's proprietary pricing algorithm takes the work out of determining and maximizing your content's revenue by changing its price to match the demand in the marketplace. All you have to do is set an initial price.
More at:http://www.cutcaster.com/
Tjooze is a simple, free service that can make your life a whole lot easier by gathering other peoples preferences on any subject you like
What Company Is Offering:
Tjooze is a simple, free service that can make your life a whole lot easier by gathering other peoples preferences on any subject you like.
Why to use it:
Tjooze.com for simple things. Like when we need to buy a birthday present for someone. I type in my ideas, and let all friends vote for the present they like best. When everybody has voted, I go the the store and buy that one present. Simple.
When I organize a poker night, I always try to invite around 10 people, not all of them will be able to make it.With Tjooze.com, it's now easy to ask if people will be there or not. No more making 10 calls and sending out mails back and forth.
Your email address is completely safe with them and that's a promise. On top, the polls you create are only visible to those people you inform about your poll. So, in a nutshell: there is no need to worry about privacy whatsoever, unless maybe when you are creating polls about top secret FBI information.
More at:http://www.tjooze.com/
Tjooze is a simple, free service that can make your life a whole lot easier by gathering other peoples preferences on any subject you like.
Why to use it:
Tjooze.com for simple things. Like when we need to buy a birthday present for someone. I type in my ideas, and let all friends vote for the present they like best. When everybody has voted, I go the the store and buy that one present. Simple.
When I organize a poker night, I always try to invite around 10 people, not all of them will be able to make it.With Tjooze.com, it's now easy to ask if people will be there or not. No more making 10 calls and sending out mails back and forth.
Your email address is completely safe with them and that's a promise. On top, the polls you create are only visible to those people you inform about your poll. So, in a nutshell: there is no need to worry about privacy whatsoever, unless maybe when you are creating polls about top secret FBI information.
More at:http://www.tjooze.com/
FM Publishing is a Sausalito, Calif.-based operator of an advertising network for more than 200 online publishers has raised $40 million
About Company:
FM Publishing is a Sausalito, Calif.-based operator of an advertising network for more than 200 online publishers, including Boing Boing, GigaOm and TechCrunch. It’s run by former Industry Standard honcho John Battelle, and is known to take extremely large commissions.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Federated Media Publishing has raised between $40 million in $50 million in Series C funding at a $200 million pre-money valuation, peHUB has learned. Oak Investment Partners led the round, with return backers Omidyar Network and Panorama Capital also participating.
Source-PEhub
More at:http://www.federatedmedia.net/
FM Publishing is a Sausalito, Calif.-based operator of an advertising network for more than 200 online publishers, including Boing Boing, GigaOm and TechCrunch. It’s run by former Industry Standard honcho John Battelle, and is known to take extremely large commissions.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Federated Media Publishing has raised between $40 million in $50 million in Series C funding at a $200 million pre-money valuation, peHUB has learned. Oak Investment Partners led the round, with return backers Omidyar Network and Panorama Capital also participating.
Source-PEhub
More at:http://www.federatedmedia.net/
OLX Inc., a Craigslist clone that focuses on free online classifiedshas raised $13.5 million
OLX means free local classifieds on a global level. OLX allows you to meet others, express yourself, trade products, find jobs, apartments, and much more!
They built OLX to improve on traditional classified sites, which are functional but missing key features to really deliver a proper public service to communities everywhere.
Unique Features:
Easily design rich HTML listings.
Control your selling, buying, and community activity in My OLX.
Send or accept PayPal payments.
Be assured of a spam-free experience.
Promote your listings on other websites, like MySpace, Xanga, and Blogspot.
Discuss listings with other interested users.
Search for items near you, wherever you live.
View our site in your local language.
How Much They Got From VCs:
OLX Inc., a Craigslist clone that focuses on free online classifieds focused on markets outside the U.S., has raised $13.5 million in second-round funding. Backers include General Catalyst Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Founders Fund and DN Capital.
More at:http://www.olx.com/
They built OLX to improve on traditional classified sites, which are functional but missing key features to really deliver a proper public service to communities everywhere.
Unique Features:
Easily design rich HTML listings.
Control your selling, buying, and community activity in My OLX.
Send or accept PayPal payments.
Be assured of a spam-free experience.
Promote your listings on other websites, like MySpace, Xanga, and Blogspot.
Discuss listings with other interested users.
Search for items near you, wherever you live.
View our site in your local language.
How Much They Got From VCs:
OLX Inc., a Craigslist clone that focuses on free online classifieds focused on markets outside the U.S., has raised $13.5 million in second-round funding. Backers include General Catalyst Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Founders Fund and DN Capital.
More at:http://www.olx.com/
The 3rd Communitelligence Executing Social Media Conference & Workshops
The 3rd Communitelligence Executing Social Media Conference & Workshops is a must-attend event for anyone in need of good advice on using the new social media tools for business advantage. The conference delivers practical, how-to take-aways from two-dozen experts and practitioners who are boldly executing successful new media programs today.
Executing Social Media will cover topics such as social networking, corporate blogging, viral videos, RSS, virtual communities, widgets and measurement. You’ll hear and meet PR, marketing and social media luminaries including Brian Solis, Chris Heuer, Phil Gomes, Chris Brogan, Jeremy Pepper, Nathan Gilliatt, Lena West, Linda Zimmer, Sally Falkow, Jake McKee, Jeanette Gibson, Sylvia Marino, Jay Bryant, Aaron Shapiro, Scott Wilder and John Hingley. Conference moderator is Jacqui Chew.
George Wright, marketing director of Blendtec, will present a Day 1 keynote and demo titled: Using Viral Videos to Build An International Brand – Cost $50. Day 2 keynotes include Morely Winograd and Michael Hais, co-authors of Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the Future of American Politics; and Peter Shankman, author of Can We Do That?! Outrageous PR Stunts That Work. The conference will also include a New Solutions Showcase featuring select vendors.
Via-Mashable
Executing Social Media will cover topics such as social networking, corporate blogging, viral videos, RSS, virtual communities, widgets and measurement. You’ll hear and meet PR, marketing and social media luminaries including Brian Solis, Chris Heuer, Phil Gomes, Chris Brogan, Jeremy Pepper, Nathan Gilliatt, Lena West, Linda Zimmer, Sally Falkow, Jake McKee, Jeanette Gibson, Sylvia Marino, Jay Bryant, Aaron Shapiro, Scott Wilder and John Hingley. Conference moderator is Jacqui Chew.
George Wright, marketing director of Blendtec, will present a Day 1 keynote and demo titled: Using Viral Videos to Build An International Brand – Cost $50. Day 2 keynotes include Morely Winograd and Michael Hais, co-authors of Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the Future of American Politics; and Peter Shankman, author of Can We Do That?! Outrageous PR Stunts That Work. The conference will also include a New Solutions Showcase featuring select vendors.
Via-Mashable
ReplayGamez allows you to get full value for your games
What Company Is Offering:
ReplayGamez allows you to get full value for your games. Once you find a game that you want on their site, they will work hard to find a matching trade. For a small fee of $5.99 they will make sure that the game you request works and that your trade is hassle-free.With ReplayGamez, you get the games you want and can keep them as long as you desire. When you trade on their nationwide network you are using the safest and most fun online trading site available. You pay only when you trade, with no monthly fees, set-up fees or late fees! Unlike other trading sites they review each trade to ensure that the games work properly and that you get what you request.
How It Works:
With ReplayGamez, you own the games you receive. Play them, trade them, keep them forever. It's your choice. ReplayGamez is better than renting because you can have as many games at home as you want with no limitations. No monthly commitments, no late fees, and no limits on how many games you can get at any time.
ReplayGamez is the safest way to trade online. Unlike other game trading sites we review each game to make sure it works properly before sending it on to you. We also ensure that the game you are trading for is the game you receive.
More at:http://www.replaygamez.com/
ReplayGamez allows you to get full value for your games. Once you find a game that you want on their site, they will work hard to find a matching trade. For a small fee of $5.99 they will make sure that the game you request works and that your trade is hassle-free.With ReplayGamez, you get the games you want and can keep them as long as you desire. When you trade on their nationwide network you are using the safest and most fun online trading site available. You pay only when you trade, with no monthly fees, set-up fees or late fees! Unlike other trading sites they review each trade to ensure that the games work properly and that you get what you request.
How It Works:
With ReplayGamez, you own the games you receive. Play them, trade them, keep them forever. It's your choice. ReplayGamez is better than renting because you can have as many games at home as you want with no limitations. No monthly commitments, no late fees, and no limits on how many games you can get at any time.
ReplayGamez is the safest way to trade online. Unlike other game trading sites we review each game to make sure it works properly before sending it on to you. We also ensure that the game you are trading for is the game you receive.
More at:http://www.replaygamez.com/
With a MegaShare.net you can get up to 50MB of storage space to upload any files for free
What Company Is Offering:
MegaShare.net is a free file hosting provider, and it's mainly used to share files that are too big to be sent via e-mail.
With MegaShare.net you can host files, images, videos, audio and flash on the same place and as long as they remain active they can be downloaded unlimited times.
How It Works:
With a MegaShare.net you can get up to 50MB of storage space to upload any files for free! And unlike other upload sites or free storage sites, you can upload multiple files! The multiple file uploading feature allows you to select and upload multiple files in the easiest and fastest way. Simply click Browse and by using standard ways select files for uploading. Then just click the Start Upload button! Use MegaShare.net to upload amost all types of files quickly, securely, and easily! Click Show Advanced Options to email password protected unique download link to yourself or to a friend after upload!
More at:http://www.megashare.net/
MegaShare.net is a free file hosting provider, and it's mainly used to share files that are too big to be sent via e-mail.
With MegaShare.net you can host files, images, videos, audio and flash on the same place and as long as they remain active they can be downloaded unlimited times.
How It Works:
With a MegaShare.net you can get up to 50MB of storage space to upload any files for free! And unlike other upload sites or free storage sites, you can upload multiple files! The multiple file uploading feature allows you to select and upload multiple files in the easiest and fastest way. Simply click Browse and by using standard ways select files for uploading. Then just click the Start Upload button! Use MegaShare.net to upload amost all types of files quickly, securely, and easily! Click Show Advanced Options to email password protected unique download link to yourself or to a friend after upload!
More at:http://www.megashare.net/
LitPitch provides writers with a quick and inexpensive way to get their written materials publish
What Company Is Offering:
LitPitch provides writers with a quick and inexpensive way to get their written materials to the public for reading, comments and rating. Their premise is akin to an "American Idol" for writers. They expected writers to put up some of their works for free viewing in exchange for drawing readers. Space is provided to writers at a nominal cost, designed primarily to deter vandalism and cluttering of the site. Their intention is to make people famous as writers, so they can translate that fame into a lucrative career. The site is also ideal amateur or casual writers seeking a centralized place to let people view their work.
How It Works:
LitPitch is designed to be a site of destination for readers based upon an abundance of free reading material, ease of use, and compatibility with electronic reading media, such as desktop computers, laptops, Apple® iPhones, Sony® Readers and iRex Technologies® iLiads.
Whom It Will Help:
a cost-effective, easy-to-use web-based platform for up-and-coming authors, playwrights, and writers of screenplays to reach the public and potential publishers;
a steady and reliable mechanism for publishers to screen and credential new material; and
a place on the internet for readers to find new, cutting-edge reading material, free of charge, from the next up-and-coming authors.
More at:http://www.litpitch.com/
LitPitch provides writers with a quick and inexpensive way to get their written materials to the public for reading, comments and rating. Their premise is akin to an "American Idol" for writers. They expected writers to put up some of their works for free viewing in exchange for drawing readers. Space is provided to writers at a nominal cost, designed primarily to deter vandalism and cluttering of the site. Their intention is to make people famous as writers, so they can translate that fame into a lucrative career. The site is also ideal amateur or casual writers seeking a centralized place to let people view their work.
How It Works:
LitPitch is designed to be a site of destination for readers based upon an abundance of free reading material, ease of use, and compatibility with electronic reading media, such as desktop computers, laptops, Apple® iPhones, Sony® Readers and iRex Technologies® iLiads.
Whom It Will Help:
a cost-effective, easy-to-use web-based platform for up-and-coming authors, playwrights, and writers of screenplays to reach the public and potential publishers;
a steady and reliable mechanism for publishers to screen and credential new material; and
a place on the internet for readers to find new, cutting-edge reading material, free of charge, from the next up-and-coming authors.
More at:http://www.litpitch.com/
Sunday, April 13, 2008
FirstLook is that kind of company. Instead of digging tools, it sells detailed reports to new-energy entrepreneurs
What Company Is Offering:
FirstLook is that kind of company. Instead of digging tools, it sells detailed reports to new-energy entrepreneurs. Those reports show just how much wind or sunshine an area is likely to receive, based on years’ worth of meteorological data.
How It Works:
The company advertises its reports via a free interactive map, which uses Google Maps. Preliminary information from the map helps entrepreneurs determine whether a windmill or solar-panel installation at a chosen location would make good financial sense. Registered users simply log in and click a location on the interactive map. Immediately, they receive a brief run-down on the area’s potential. Wind reports, for example, show the area’s average wind speed at different heights, which correspond to the possible heights of a windmill tower. Solar maps give the average daily illumination the same spot receives at differing angles. That information on sunlight angles is critical, unless the project employs solar panels that track the sun’s movement across the sky.
Websites run by the Department of Energy and other government and environmental organizations already provide similar information, though maybe with a less easy-to-use interface. But energy entrepreneurs will need something far more detailed if they hope to convince bankers or investors to fund their projects. A simple mouse click takes them to FirstLook’s reports page, where they can buy a detailed report USD 1,000 and up.
More at: www.3tiergroup.com
FirstLook is that kind of company. Instead of digging tools, it sells detailed reports to new-energy entrepreneurs. Those reports show just how much wind or sunshine an area is likely to receive, based on years’ worth of meteorological data.
How It Works:
The company advertises its reports via a free interactive map, which uses Google Maps. Preliminary information from the map helps entrepreneurs determine whether a windmill or solar-panel installation at a chosen location would make good financial sense. Registered users simply log in and click a location on the interactive map. Immediately, they receive a brief run-down on the area’s potential. Wind reports, for example, show the area’s average wind speed at different heights, which correspond to the possible heights of a windmill tower. Solar maps give the average daily illumination the same spot receives at differing angles. That information on sunlight angles is critical, unless the project employs solar panels that track the sun’s movement across the sky.
Websites run by the Department of Energy and other government and environmental organizations already provide similar information, though maybe with a less easy-to-use interface. But energy entrepreneurs will need something far more detailed if they hope to convince bankers or investors to fund their projects. A simple mouse click takes them to FirstLook’s reports page, where they can buy a detailed report USD 1,000 and up.
More at: www.3tiergroup.com
nsyght is a new type of search engine powered by you, your bookmarks, and your friends
About Company:
nsyght is a search engine powered by you, your bookmarks, and your friends.Nsyght is a new type of social search engine that helps users improve the relevancy of search by leveraging their bookmarks and social network. Content relevancy is not a problem that can be solved by algorithm alone. Too often searches get clogged up with spam sites or sites of low relevance. The broader the search, the less relevant the results. To achieve the best possible results from a given search, you need the human factor to augment any computer algorithm.
More at:http://www.nsyght.com/
nsyght is a search engine powered by you, your bookmarks, and your friends.Nsyght is a new type of social search engine that helps users improve the relevancy of search by leveraging their bookmarks and social network. Content relevancy is not a problem that can be solved by algorithm alone. Too often searches get clogged up with spam sites or sites of low relevance. The broader the search, the less relevant the results. To achieve the best possible results from a given search, you need the human factor to augment any computer algorithm.
More at:http://www.nsyght.com/
2People---Their immediate goal is to build an overwhelming public mandate for real solutions to the climate crisis
What Company Is Offering:
The mission of 2People is sustainability in one generation. To achieve this, they must make the connections between many issues, from pollution and poverty to women's rights and democracy. Their immediate goal is to build an overwhelming public mandate for real solutions to the climate crisis. They are a non-profit organization, started by Phil Mitchell.
How It Works:
Find out what are the most important actions you can take to help solve global warming.
See what actions other people are doing, ranging from personal actions such as driving less to big-picture political actions such as working on the Climate Elections 2008 campaign.
Connect with people who live near you, and connect with teams of people who are working on projects you'd like to be involved in. Join an existing team or propose a new one.
Help build the network by inviting people you know to join.
More at:http://www.2people.org/
The mission of 2People is sustainability in one generation. To achieve this, they must make the connections between many issues, from pollution and poverty to women's rights and democracy. Their immediate goal is to build an overwhelming public mandate for real solutions to the climate crisis. They are a non-profit organization, started by Phil Mitchell.
How It Works:
Find out what are the most important actions you can take to help solve global warming.
See what actions other people are doing, ranging from personal actions such as driving less to big-picture political actions such as working on the Climate Elections 2008 campaign.
Connect with people who live near you, and connect with teams of people who are working on projects you'd like to be involved in. Join an existing team or propose a new one.
Help build the network by inviting people you know to join.
More at:http://www.2people.org/
WhatYah---A place to share movies, games and tv shows with friends legally
What Company Is Offering:
WhatYah's goal is to provide anyone the ability to know exactly what media titles your friends have so you can share everything.A place to share movies, games and tv shows with friends legally, create reviews and let your friends know what you think.
How It Works:
Sign up, Invite friends. Add & organize media titles. Create top lists to share
Print your archive for friends. Track your media. Get notified when friends get media you want. Get notified when friends get media you want.
More at:http://www.whatyah.com/
WhatYah's goal is to provide anyone the ability to know exactly what media titles your friends have so you can share everything.A place to share movies, games and tv shows with friends legally, create reviews and let your friends know what you think.
How It Works:
Sign up, Invite friends. Add & organize media titles. Create top lists to share
Print your archive for friends. Track your media. Get notified when friends get media you want. Get notified when friends get media you want.
More at:http://www.whatyah.com/
IPLAdda.com H2H Fantasy Cricket League is the first ever head to head fantasy game in Cricket
What Company Is Offering:
An H2H (head-to-head) league is one where a player plays a 'match' against an opposing player in the same league. A series of such matches are played with other opposing players in the user's league for the entire duration of the competition/tournament.
How Is It Different:
IPLAdda.com H2H Fantasy Cricket League is the first ever head to head fantasy game in Cricket. In most other cricket fantasy games, you either just collect statistics for the duration of the tournament and all the other opponents in your league do the same. The team with the best statistics for the duration of the entire tournament is the winner. There is no concept of playing a match against any opponent. Furthermore, there are certain other fantasy cricket games where you are playing against yourself, such that your batsmen should score more runs than the number of runs your bowlers give away. This is also an interesting concept, but you end up playing against yourself (batsmen v bowlers), and there is no concept of playing against any other player playing the fantasy game. In a H2H league, for a specific time period within the tournament, you will play against an opponent in your league, and you should try to obtain a better statistics in terms of runs, wickets, boundaries, catches etc, which calls into picture an all-round measure of your team's capability.
More at:http://www.ipladda.com/
An H2H (head-to-head) league is one where a player plays a 'match' against an opposing player in the same league. A series of such matches are played with other opposing players in the user's league for the entire duration of the competition/tournament.
How Is It Different:
IPLAdda.com H2H Fantasy Cricket League is the first ever head to head fantasy game in Cricket. In most other cricket fantasy games, you either just collect statistics for the duration of the tournament and all the other opponents in your league do the same. The team with the best statistics for the duration of the entire tournament is the winner. There is no concept of playing a match against any opponent. Furthermore, there are certain other fantasy cricket games where you are playing against yourself, such that your batsmen should score more runs than the number of runs your bowlers give away. This is also an interesting concept, but you end up playing against yourself (batsmen v bowlers), and there is no concept of playing against any other player playing the fantasy game. In a H2H league, for a specific time period within the tournament, you will play against an opponent in your league, and you should try to obtain a better statistics in terms of runs, wickets, boundaries, catches etc, which calls into picture an all-round measure of your team's capability.
More at:http://www.ipladda.com/
HowDoYa was created to help people who want to learn how-to do something — anything
About Company:
HowDoYa was created to help people who want to learn how-to do something — anything. They do it by helping you search the Internet in a smarter, task-centric way. And unlike other websites that profess to have the single right answer, they give you many (but not too many) answers, so you can find the one that is right for you.
HowDoYa offers up many precisely relevant concepts and notions organized in a simple, easy-to-understand way. These concepts can be used to refine your search, building out a more and more precise query, or they can be used to quickly purchase the things you will need to do your "how-to."
More at:http://www.howdoya.com/
HowDoYa was created to help people who want to learn how-to do something — anything. They do it by helping you search the Internet in a smarter, task-centric way. And unlike other websites that profess to have the single right answer, they give you many (but not too many) answers, so you can find the one that is right for you.
HowDoYa offers up many precisely relevant concepts and notions organized in a simple, easy-to-understand way. These concepts can be used to refine your search, building out a more and more precise query, or they can be used to quickly purchase the things you will need to do your "how-to."
More at:http://www.howdoya.com/
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Edopter combines early adopter insight and worldwide buzz to tap into the next big thing
What Company Is Offering:
Edopter combines early adopter insight and worldwide buzz to tap into the next big thing. Create and follow trends, share and discuss them - then watch as they spread across the world. Who tells the world what‘s next? You do.
How It Works:
It is a place for people to share thoughts and ideas on what might become the next in-vogue trend, everything from TV shows to food tastes to fashion accessories.
Posts range from the brilliant to the bizarre. Take a scroll through the front page selection or use the tabs at the top to browse or launch a trend or see how it works.
Each trend section contains an overview, the pitch, and a space for images, videos, and chat. If you agree with the trend just click the Get In button.
You will need to be registered for this function which is simple and quick. When browsing by trend don’t forget to use the sort options at the top to direct your search.”
Your portfolio is a snapshot of what you are currently into. Fill it with interesting trends, promote the best content in each, and drop the trends
you think have had their time in the spotlight...
More at:http://edopter.com/
Edopter combines early adopter insight and worldwide buzz to tap into the next big thing. Create and follow trends, share and discuss them - then watch as they spread across the world. Who tells the world what‘s next? You do.
How It Works:
It is a place for people to share thoughts and ideas on what might become the next in-vogue trend, everything from TV shows to food tastes to fashion accessories.
Posts range from the brilliant to the bizarre. Take a scroll through the front page selection or use the tabs at the top to browse or launch a trend or see how it works.
Each trend section contains an overview, the pitch, and a space for images, videos, and chat. If you agree with the trend just click the Get In button.
You will need to be registered for this function which is simple and quick. When browsing by trend don’t forget to use the sort options at the top to direct your search.”
Your portfolio is a snapshot of what you are currently into. Fill it with interesting trends, promote the best content in each, and drop the trends
you think have had their time in the spotlight...
More at:http://edopter.com/
Uber Inc is a social networking startup has raised $5.5 million
What Company Is Offering:
Uber.com is a community-driven creative-minded destination where visitors can discover, publish, collect, store and share all forms of media content on its ever-growing Uber Index. Built on a proprietary, robust Web 2.0 platform, Uber offers members a host of unique cutting-edge widgets to enhance their online adventure. Uber redefines the traditional Web model, combining technology, content, community and experience to create an at-your-fingertips world of invaluable user-generated ideas and information. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Uber is a privately-held next-generation media company founded by Scott Sassa and Glenn Kaino .
How Much They Got From VCs:
Uber Inc., a Beverly Hills, Calif.-based social networking startup run by former Friendster and NBC exec Scott Sassa, has called down $5.5 million of a $7.6 million Series B round, according to a regulatory filing. Shareholders include Universal Music Group and Sterling Stamos Co-Investors Fund.
More at:http://www.uber.com/
Uber.com is a community-driven creative-minded destination where visitors can discover, publish, collect, store and share all forms of media content on its ever-growing Uber Index. Built on a proprietary, robust Web 2.0 platform, Uber offers members a host of unique cutting-edge widgets to enhance their online adventure. Uber redefines the traditional Web model, combining technology, content, community and experience to create an at-your-fingertips world of invaluable user-generated ideas and information. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Uber is a privately-held next-generation media company founded by Scott Sassa and Glenn Kaino .
How Much They Got From VCs:
Uber Inc., a Beverly Hills, Calif.-based social networking startup run by former Friendster and NBC exec Scott Sassa, has called down $5.5 million of a $7.6 million Series B round, according to a regulatory filing. Shareholders include Universal Music Group and Sterling Stamos Co-Investors Fund.
More at:http://www.uber.com/
BugMeNot.com
What Company Is Offering:
BugMeNot.com was created as a mechanism to quickly bypass the login of web sites that require compulsory registration and/or the collection of personal/demographic information (such as the New York Times).
How It Works:
You're browsing the web and you click a link to an article on a site (let's say nytimes.com) but instead of getting the article you get a screen asking you to login or register. Infuriated at the idea of pointlessly registering for yet another site you turn to your good buddy bugmenot.com
STEP 1: Make a note of the website address your are trying to access. For example:
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_2100-1024_3-5567274.html
Or even just:
www.nytimes.com
STEP 2: Visit http://bugmenot.com
STEP 3: Enter the address from step 1 into the box and press the "Get Logins" button
STEP 4: You should now be presented with at least one username and password. Make a note of them.
STEP 5: Go back to the site you were originally trying to access in step 1 and proceed to login with the username and password you noted in the previous step.
With any luck you should be able to access your article now!
More at:http://www.bugmenot.com/
BugMeNot.com was created as a mechanism to quickly bypass the login of web sites that require compulsory registration and/or the collection of personal/demographic information (such as the New York Times).
How It Works:
You're browsing the web and you click a link to an article on a site (let's say nytimes.com) but instead of getting the article you get a screen asking you to login or register. Infuriated at the idea of pointlessly registering for yet another site you turn to your good buddy bugmenot.com
STEP 1: Make a note of the website address your are trying to access. For example:
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_2100-1024_3-5567274.html
Or even just:
www.nytimes.com
STEP 2: Visit http://bugmenot.com
STEP 3: Enter the address from step 1 into the box and press the "Get Logins" button
STEP 4: You should now be presented with at least one username and password. Make a note of them.
STEP 5: Go back to the site you were originally trying to access in step 1 and proceed to login with the username and password you noted in the previous step.
With any luck you should be able to access your article now!
More at:http://www.bugmenot.com/
Trade your ideas at Brickfish
What Company Is Offering:
Brickfish allows you to create and submit your blogs, audio, video and images in fun and exciting campaigns for the chance to win cool rewards. They have a variety of campaigns in your favorite channels like Fashion & Beauty, Entertainment, Lifestyles, Sports and Politics. You can also review other entries and vote for your favorites – building your reputation on Brickfish. In addition, you can share campaign content with your friends at the press of a button through other social networking sites, email, and instant messaging.
How It Works:
If want to start voting for and reviewing other people's entries or submit your own entries into a campaign, you can Enter as a Guest OR Sign Up as a Brickfish member. Then just follow the instructions to create an account. Anyone can view all public content including campaigns and all entries. If you would like to vote or review without registration, you can become a Guest.
With a Guest Account, people are able to vote and review in any campaign without registering for membership on the site. Guests can simply click the "Enter as Guest" link and start voting and reviewing right away.
More at:http://www.brickfish.com/
Brickfish allows you to create and submit your blogs, audio, video and images in fun and exciting campaigns for the chance to win cool rewards. They have a variety of campaigns in your favorite channels like Fashion & Beauty, Entertainment, Lifestyles, Sports and Politics. You can also review other entries and vote for your favorites – building your reputation on Brickfish. In addition, you can share campaign content with your friends at the press of a button through other social networking sites, email, and instant messaging.
How It Works:
If want to start voting for and reviewing other people's entries or submit your own entries into a campaign, you can Enter as a Guest OR Sign Up as a Brickfish member. Then just follow the instructions to create an account. Anyone can view all public content including campaigns and all entries. If you would like to vote or review without registration, you can become a Guest.
With a Guest Account, people are able to vote and review in any campaign without registering for membership on the site. Guests can simply click the "Enter as Guest" link and start voting and reviewing right away.
More at:http://www.brickfish.com/
TimeMachiner is a new mini-app that lets you email people in the future
What Company Is Offering:
TimeMachiner is a new mini-app that lets you email people in the future. Use it to remind yourself to do something that you’ll more than likely forget, keep your future self on the straight and narrow, even wish your friends happy birthday...
More at:http://timemachiner.com/
TimeMachiner is a new mini-app that lets you email people in the future. Use it to remind yourself to do something that you’ll more than likely forget, keep your future self on the straight and narrow, even wish your friends happy birthday...
More at:http://timemachiner.com/
Friday, April 11, 2008
Angie's List the nation's leading source for local service provider ratings has raised $35 million
What Company Is Offering:
Angie's List is where thousands of consumers share their ratings and reviews on local service providers in more than 330 different categories. Currently, more than 600,000 consumers across the U.S. rely on Angie's List to help them find the right professional for the job they need done. Angie's List was cited in U.S. News & World Report's "50 Ways to Improve Your Life in 2007"
How Much They Got From VCs:
Angie's List the nation's leading source for local service provider ratings has added Battery Ventures, one of the nation's oldest and most well respected venture capital firms, to its list of investors. Battery invested $35 million in exchange for a minority stake in the company. Angie's List will use the investment to continue its aggressive pattern of growth and service expansion.
"We're very excited to be working so closely with Roger Lee and his partners at Battery," said Angie Hicks, founder of Angie's List. "They were helpful even before we finalized the deal, and we know we're going to enjoy working with them as we continue to grow our presence and the services we offer."
Recognized nationally as an Internet pioneer, Angie's List holds a unique position at the intersection of local search, user-generated content and subscription-based services. Further setting the company apart in the local ratings space is its data integrity process, which maximizes the accuracy and reliability of the information available on Angie's List. Angie's List does not allow anonymous postings, and service providers cannot add themselves to the List.
More at: www.angieslist.com
Angie's List is where thousands of consumers share their ratings and reviews on local service providers in more than 330 different categories. Currently, more than 600,000 consumers across the U.S. rely on Angie's List to help them find the right professional for the job they need done. Angie's List was cited in U.S. News & World Report's "50 Ways to Improve Your Life in 2007"
How Much They Got From VCs:
Angie's List the nation's leading source for local service provider ratings has added Battery Ventures, one of the nation's oldest and most well respected venture capital firms, to its list of investors. Battery invested $35 million in exchange for a minority stake in the company. Angie's List will use the investment to continue its aggressive pattern of growth and service expansion.
"We're very excited to be working so closely with Roger Lee and his partners at Battery," said Angie Hicks, founder of Angie's List. "They were helpful even before we finalized the deal, and we know we're going to enjoy working with them as we continue to grow our presence and the services we offer."
Recognized nationally as an Internet pioneer, Angie's List holds a unique position at the intersection of local search, user-generated content and subscription-based services. Further setting the company apart in the local ratings space is its data integrity process, which maximizes the accuracy and reliability of the information available on Angie's List. Angie's List does not allow anonymous postings, and service providers cannot add themselves to the List.
More at: www.angieslist.com
VendorRate helps businesses select great B2B Information Technology & Telecom vendors while avoiding expensive procurement mistakes
What Company Is Offering:
VendorRate helps businesses select great B2B Information Technology & Telecom vendors while avoiding expensive procurement mistakes. VendorRate’s revolutionary confidential rating system scores Vendor performance and gives a collective voice to the customer base of a vendor by publishing numerical ratings on an Overall and Key Performance Indicators basis.VendorRate lets customers evaluate their vendors in a confidential setting. The identity of the Rating Members is kept secret at all times. This means that the name, organization, city, state, and type of business will NEVER be disclosed. When IT professionals enter the VendorRate safe environment with identity safeguards in place, they feel more comfortable in sharing candid and reliable feedback normally not available in public or social networks.
How It Works:
VendorRate measures overall customer satisfaction for B2B vendors in the IT and Telecom industries. VendorRate has identified 10 common areas of vendor performance that can be used evaluate customer satisfaction. Ratings are given by IT professionals with the intent of helping organizations make better decisions prior to selecting an IT vendor for products or services.endor are rated only by professionals in the business community who perform IT related tasks as part of their day to day jobs.VendorRate provides an easy to use rating questionnaire that lets Members rate both quickly and accurately.
More at:http://www.vendorrate.com/
VendorRate helps businesses select great B2B Information Technology & Telecom vendors while avoiding expensive procurement mistakes. VendorRate’s revolutionary confidential rating system scores Vendor performance and gives a collective voice to the customer base of a vendor by publishing numerical ratings on an Overall and Key Performance Indicators basis.VendorRate lets customers evaluate their vendors in a confidential setting. The identity of the Rating Members is kept secret at all times. This means that the name, organization, city, state, and type of business will NEVER be disclosed. When IT professionals enter the VendorRate safe environment with identity safeguards in place, they feel more comfortable in sharing candid and reliable feedback normally not available in public or social networks.
How It Works:
VendorRate measures overall customer satisfaction for B2B vendors in the IT and Telecom industries. VendorRate has identified 10 common areas of vendor performance that can be used evaluate customer satisfaction. Ratings are given by IT professionals with the intent of helping organizations make better decisions prior to selecting an IT vendor for products or services.endor are rated only by professionals in the business community who perform IT related tasks as part of their day to day jobs.VendorRate provides an easy to use rating questionnaire that lets Members rate both quickly and accurately.
More at:http://www.vendorrate.com/
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